1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Influence]
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Action]
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Wisdom]
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Contradiction]
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Wit]
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Wealth]
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Ambition]
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Words]
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Work]
Work is victory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Work]
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Kindness]
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Reality]
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